Nowhere Near the Edge

If you ever see this cat approaching you, run as fast as you can the other way and hope that it doesn't follow you: Oscar the cat seem...

I've been distracted and preoccupied lately, both in action and thought. More on that to come soon, maybe. In the meantime, I have allow...

The crash of an airliner in Brazil this week brings back some points I've made before about airports with short runways in urban areas...

Apologies if you have seen this one, but I found it amusing: 1. Sitting where you are, at your desk in front of your computer, lift your rig...

Here in SoCal, a summons for jury service is not nearly the burden that it once was. You must call in to an automated telephone number each...

In an unusual mid-week excursion, we saw the latest Die Hard movie last night. If you liked the first movie and you can suspend your disbel...

As seems to have become normal during the summer months around here, we had a blackout this morning that lasted nearly an hour. Michael, wh...

Astrophysics must be a mathematician’s dream. With no environmental factors to distort the outcomes, the behavior of celestial bodies can b...

I spent yesterday in San Francisco, participating in oral argument before California’s First District Court of Appeal. Actually, I was done...

Sportscasters are often in search of phrases that convey a sense of testosterone flung about with abandon. Somewhere along the way, someone...

A clever artist once gave us "A Parochial New Yorker's View of the World": Perhaps the view from Ohio is similar. Or, perhaps...

Welcome back. We now resume our story, in the second full day at sea... Following our departure from Nassau under cover of darkness, dawn f...

Last night, thanks to the generosity of an acquaintance, we attended a special performance of " George Gershwin Alone ." This one...

Our first morning at sea found us pulling into the Nassau harbor. After squeezing through the breakwater, our enormous ship pirouetted with...

German cars are notoriously expensive to maintain. One obvious reason is that the parts are usually manufactured overseas, and are not in g...

While we wait for the rest of the Disney Cruise pictures to upload... For those of a certain age, who are now in prime career/childrearing/l...

Our first morning in Florida found us fully encompassed by the Disney gravitational pull. After a great buffet breakfast in the hotel, we p...

Our (unexpectedly) second annual trip to the Bahamas began in pre-dawn darkness that felt little removed from post-dusk darkness. I, in par...

Sorry for the dearth of posts recently, especially since a couple of you may be waiting to see happy snaps of our recent vacation. Those wi...

Twice in the past month I have watched the hillside hear my office erupt in flames, the most recent occasion being yesterday. The office is...